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“Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from
Cézanne to van Gogh” is organized by the Minneapolis
Institute of Art and The National Gallery, London.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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FALL 2015
TALKS | EVENTS | FILM
Talks
September 12
Art for Life’s Sake: The
Life of Emma Roberts
September 27
Opening-Weekend Talks:
Beyond Measure:
Gifts from Mary
Griggs Burke
Events
October 23
Durades Dialogue:
Renée Stout & Hawona
Sullivan Janzen
October 24
Monsters & Vision
in the Pre-Classical
Mediterranean
Changed Times: Sources
& Methods behind
20th-Century Japanese
Woodblock Prints
October 29
Japanese Modernism
& Itō Shinsui: Paintings
& Prints
October 1
Newman Lecture
on Photography:
Simen Johan
November 7
Delacroix Unframed
October 4
The Mary Ann Butterfield
Lecture: Woven Gold:
Tapestries of Louis XIV
October 18
Eugène Delacroix &
Modernity
Ticketing
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November 22
The Agnes Lynch
Anderson and Roger
Anderson Lecture:
Gauguin’s Search for
His Father: Delacroix
as Gauguin’s Most
Important Source
September 19
Annual Members’ Day
October 24
Art + Feminism Mia
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Thursday, September 24
Thursday, October 22
Thursday, December 3
Art Illuminating Human
Rights Series
Film
November 13
Screening & Discussion:
‘Always Becoming’ with
Nora Naranjo Morse
Class
Tuesday, October 13
Tuesday, December 1
Hands-on Art History
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Talks
ART FOR LIFE’S SAKE: THE LIFE OF EMMA ROBERTS
Saturday, September 12, 11 a.m.
Presenters: Sue Leaf & Kathy Allen
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Library Affinity Group members
Join Minnesota author Sue Leaf for a talk about the life and work of Emma Roberts, a
Minneapolis artist of the 1870s who became a renowned arts educator in the public
schools. Trained in Manhattan, Roberts founded the Handicraft Guild, highlighted artwork
of Minneapolis school children at international art congresses, and pioneered art education
at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her brother, Thomas Sadler Roberts, was a Bell Museum
curator, author of Birds of Minnesota, and later the husband of Agnes Williams, who
collaborated with Emma on a series of wildflower watercolor paintings.
Following Leaf’s talk, Kathy Allen will discuss the discovery of previously unknown
watercolors by artists Roberts and Williams, found in the Arboretum’s collection.
Sue Leaf is the author of A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts, a 2014
Minnesota Book Award finalist. Kathy Allen is head of the Andersen Horticultural Library at
the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
Cover and below: Emma Roberts, Nelumbo Great Yellow (detail), 1885, Collection of Anderson Horticultural Library,
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Talks
These talks celebrate the openings of two exhibitions: “Gifts of Japanese
and Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection” and “Seven Masters:
20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection.”
OPENING-WEEKEND TALKS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Asian Art Affinity Group members
BEYOND MEASURE:
GIFTS FROM MARY GRIGGS BURKE
2 p.m.
Presenter: Matthew Welch
From the 1950s until her death in 2012, Saint Paul native Mary Griggs Burke amassed one
of the most important private collections of Japanese art in the West. Renowned for its
remarkable quality and breadth, the collection encompasses artworks from ancient times to
the present day, including Buddhist and Shinto art, calligraphy, ceramics, lacquer, metalwork,
and paintings by masters of every school active in pre-modern Japan. A substantial portion
of the Burke Collection has been given to Mia by the Burke Foundation and will debut in the
galleries this weekend.
Matthew Welch, PhD, is Deputy Director & Chief Curator at Mia. His specialty is Japanese and
Korean art with particular emphasis on Edo period and Zen painting.
Generous support for “Gifts of Japanese and Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection”
provided by the Gale Family Endowment.
CHANGED TIMES: SOURCES & METHODS BEHIND
20TH-CENTURY JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
3 p.m.
Presenter: Andreas Marks
Shin hanga, the “new print,” developed 100 years ago as an art movement aiming to revive
the ideal world of seductive women, the magic of the kabuki theater, and the thrilling pulse
of urban life that characterized traditional woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. Produced by
time-honored methods, the new prints spoke to a nostalgia for a long past milieu. Yet the
artists who designed shin hanga inhabited a world radically different from that of ukiyo-e
artists and had distinctly different processes for creating imagery. Andreas Marks will discuss
the sources and methods used in making these new prints.
Andreas Marks, PhD, is Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Japanese and
Korean Art Department Head, and Director of the Clark Center at Mia. He is the author of the
exhibition catalogue Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells
Collection.
Generous support for the exhibition catalogue, Seven Masters: 20th Century Woodblock
Prints from the Wells Collection, is provided by Ellen Wells.
NEWMAN LECTURE ON PHOTOGRAPHY: SIMEN JOHAN
Thursday, October 1, 6:30 p.m.
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Photography & New Media and Contemporary Affinity
Group members
Simen Johan (born 1973) is a Norwegian contemporary artist, photographer, and sculptor
living in New York City. In an interview with National Geographic, Johan said, “Some of my
work emulates traditional nature photography, and there’s some intended irony in that. But
there’s also sincerity, because I really do enjoy making beautiful images of nature. Beauty alone,
though, doesn’t echo my experience of the world, which is more complex and multilayered,
so in my versions of ‘nature photography’ I also incorporate darker qualities. ... The work is
multilayered and open-ended, with biblical as well as political references scattered throughout,
but ultimately it’s a visceral response that I’m after.”
Co-presented with Bethel University Galleries, where Until the Kingdom Comes is on exhibit
in its Olson Gallery, Sept. 7–Dec. 18.
Generous support provided by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
Simen Johan, Untitled #181, from the series Until the Kingdom Comes, 2015,
digital chromogenic print. © Simen Johan, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York,
The Margurite S. McNally Endowment for Art Acquisition, 2015.42
Talks
EUGÈNE DELACROIX & MODERNITY
Sunday, October 18, 2 p.m.
Presenter: Patrick Noon
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Paintings Affinity Group members
At the time of his death in 1863, Eugène Delacroix was the most revered artist in Paris.
Succeeding generations of painters persisted in paying homage to his achievements
and in exploring his aesthetic theories. If he was often described as the last painter of
the Grand Style, he was equally one of the first modern masters and arguably the most
influential artist of his epoch. Paul Signac, in his seminal treatise D’Eugène Delacroix
au Néo-Impressionnisme, credited this genius of Romanticism with liberating color and
technique irrevocably from traditional rules and practice, while Paul Cézanne famously
observed, “We all paint in Delacroix’s language.” This lecture will present an overview of
how and why this was so.
Patrick Noon is Elizabeth MacMillan Chair of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of
Art and curator of the exhibition “Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from
Cézanne to van Gogh,” on view through January 10, 2016.
Eugène Delacroix, Lion Hunt (detail), 1860/61, Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection,
1922.404.
The Mary Ann Butterfield Lecture
WOVEN GOLD: TAPESTRIES OF LOUIS XIV
Sunday, October 4, 2 p.m.
Presenter: Charissa Bremer-David
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Decorative Arts, Textiles & Sculpture Affinity Group
members
Colorful and glittering tapestries, handwoven after designs by the most renowned artists,
were the ultimate expression of status, power, taste, and wealth. As collector, heir, and
patron, Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715) vastly augmented the prestigious French royal collection
of tapestries. Displayed within his palaces while in residence and in outdoor courtyards
on feast days, these monumental hangings embodied and proclaimed his magnificence.
Charissa Bremer-David, curator of a major international loan exhibition opening at the
Getty Museum in December, will preview this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition that consists
largely of rare loans from the French state.
Charissa Bremer-David, curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the Getty Museum,
organized “Woven Gold,” the first major tapestry show in the western United States in
over 40 years.
Workshop of Maurice I Dubout (French, active 1606–11), cartoon by Henri Lerambert (French, about 1540/1550–
1608) after Antoine Caron (French, 1521–99). A Chariot of Triumph Drawn by Four Piebald Horses, about 1606–07,
tapestry: wool and silk. Courtesy of the Mobilier National, France.
Photograph by Mary Noble Ours
Protoattic Amphora (detail), image of Medusa in the form of a cauldron, 7th c. BCE,
Archaeological Museum, Eleusis, Greece
Talks
Durades Dialogue
RENÉE STOUT & HAWONA SULLIVAN JANZEN
Friday, October 23, 6:30 p.m.
$10; $5 MIA members, free for African Art and
Contemporary Affinity Group members
Co-presented
with Obsidian.
Renée Stout uses imagery from African traditions, popular culture, and personal politics
to create images and objects in a variety of media. Stout confronts difficult realities in her
personal life and attempts to better understand the human condition as well as reflecting
on the relationship of African art to her practice. After a short visual presentation by
Stout, she will be joined by Hawona Sullivan Janzen for a dialogue on her work.
Renée Stout was one of six finalists for the seventh annual Janet & Walter Sondheim
Artscape Prize (2012) and a recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize (2010). Her work is
in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the National Gallery of Art, all in Washington, D.C.;
the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art.
Hawona Sullivan Janzen is the gallery curator and coordinator for the Witness Creative
Writing Program at the University of Minnesota’s Robert J. Jones Urban Research and
Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC).
MONSTERS & VISION IN THE
PRE-CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN
Saturday, October 24, 11 a.m.
Presenter: Nassos Papalexandrou
Free, but tickets required.
Co-presented with
the Archeological
Institute of America.
The visual apparatus of orientalizing cauldrons introduced radically new technologies of
visual engagement in the pre-classical Mediterranean of the 7th century BCE. Hitherto
the orientalizing innovation has been understood in terms of the wholesale importation
or adaptation of objects, techniques, and iconographies from the Near East. The speaker,
Nassos Papalexandrou, proposes instead that change was ushered in by a radical shift in
ways of seeing and interacting with what today we call “art.” The new technologies of visual
engagement (new ways of seeing and being seen) he explores reshaped the cognitive and
aesthetic apparatus of viewing subjects.
Nassos Papalexandrou, PhD, teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. His first book, The
Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece, was published in
2005. He is working on a second book that explores the role of monsters in the arts and
rituals of Early Greece. He is also involved in two projects that have to do with the archaeology
of ancient Italy.
Eugène Delacroix, Convulsionists of Tangiers (detail), 1837–38, oil on canvas,
Bequest of J. Jerome Hill, 73.42.3
Talks
Itō Shinsui; Published by
Watanabe Shōzaburō,
Japanese, 1898–1972,
Woman Looking at a
Mirror (detail), July 1916,
woodblock print; ink
and color on paper, Gift
of Ellen and Fred Wells,
2002.161.205
JAPANESE MODERNISM & ITŌ SHINSUI:
PAINTINGS & PRINTS
Thursday, October 29, 6:30 p.m.
Presenter: Chiaki Ajioka
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Asian Art Affinity Group members
Modernism in Japanese art began around 1910. As information on Western art and literature
was increasingly available, young artists in Tokyo and Kyoto/Osaka region became engaged
in experimental projects that reflected the rapidly changing urban environment and new
ways of seeing and thinking. The young Itō Shinsui developed his approach to art absorbing
these events around him. Related to the current exhibition “Seven Masters: 20th-century
Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection,” this talk will consider Shinsui’s
painting and print design in the context of Japanese modernism.
Chiaki Ajioka, PhD, is a Japanese art historian and consultant currently serving as a board
member at the Australia-Japan Foundation in Sydney, Australia. Ajioka contributed an essay
to the exhibition catalogue, Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from
the Wells Collection.
DELACROIX UNFRAMED: A STUDY DAY
Saturday, November 7, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
$80, $64 Mia members; includes all talks, lunch, and materials
Here’s an opportunity to immerse yourself in the life and work of Eugène Delacroix.
Held in conjunction with “Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne
to van Gogh,” on view through January 10, 2016, this half-day program will provide a
multidisciplinary, in-depth look at the artist’s work.
Programming includes a lecture by National Gallery curator Chris Riopelle, followed
by a Moroccan-inspired luncheon with talk on Delacroix’s Orientalism by the
exhibition’s curator Patrick Noon, the Elizabeth MacMillan Chair of Paintings at
Mia. Rounding out the event is a special musical performance exploring Delacroix’s
friendship with Chopin, presented in partnership with MacPhail Center for Music.
See website for schedule and full details.
Talks
Events
ANNUAL MEMBERS’ DAY
Saturday, September 19, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Paul Gauguin, I Raro Te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) (detail), 1893, oil
on canvas, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, 41.4
Ticketing:
• 3 sessions, Keynote Luncheon, Town Hall & Social Hour: $65
• 3 sessions, Town Hall & Social Hour: $15
• Town Hall & Social Hour: Free, but registration is required.
Talks for the day include “Van Gogh and Nature,” by Richard Kendall, curator at large,
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and “Food as Design,” by University of Minnesota
professor Barry Kudrowitz.
Accessibility is always at the heart of Mia’s mission. And our new free membership level has
opened the museum’s doors in exciting new ways. To extend that welcome, we’re offering
a new take on the members’ annual meeting, one that deepens access to the museum and
engages members in a dynamic conversation. This is your chance to experience a daylong
deep dive about the business of art. This day is all about art, with talks by art experts, artmaking activities, a keynote by Kaywin Feldman, Duncan and Nivin MacMillan Director and
President of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a town-hall meeting, and a social-hour wrap-up.
The Agnes Lynch Anderson and Roger Anderson Lecture
GAUGUIN’S SEARCH FOR HIS FATHER:
DELACROIX AS GAUGUIN’S MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE
Sunday, November 22, 2 p.m.
Presenter: Richard R. Brettell
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Painting Affinity Group members
Paul Gauguin was only 1 when his father died and 15 when Eugène Delacroix died—and, in
many ways, the future artist grew up without a father, artistic or actual. Like Paul Cezanne,
he tried to place Camille Pissarro in both roles. But, as Gauguin aged in Tahiti and the
Marquesas, Delacroix began to assume that role in his work. This talk will examine the
myriad ways in which Gauguin channeled Delacroix—both his life and his work—to create a
modernism with deep psychological and artistic roots.
Richard R. Brettell, PhD, is founding director of The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History,
and the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair and co-Director, CISM (Center for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Museums), at the University of Texas at Dallas.
ART ILLUMINATING HUMAN RIGHTS
An Events Series from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and
The Advocates for Human Rights
Programs are free, but registration is required.
Thursday, September 24
6 p.m. Gallery Talk:
Art & Civil Rights
Thursday, October 22
6 p.m. Gallery Talk:
Art & Stories
Thursday, December 3
6 p.m. Gallery Talk:
Art & Identity
7 p.m. Talk: Jonathan Odell,
author of Ms. Hazel and
the Rosa Parks League,
with author and scholar
Duchess Harris
7 p.m. Performance:
poetry and music
7 p.m. Reading &
Conversation: LGBTI
authors and poets
Events
Eva Gonzales, Lady with
a Fan (detail), 1869–70,
pastel, 72.81, Gift of Bruce
B. Dayton, 72.81
Film
SCREENING & DISCUSSION: ALWAYS BECOMING’
WITH NORA NARANJO MORSE
Friday, November 13, 7 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium
Presenter: Nora Naranjo Morse
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Native American Affinity
Group members
Documentarian Nora Naranjo Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo, will introduce her film, Always
Becoming, a 30-minute documentary revealing the construction and concepts behind five
ephemeral sculptures she built at the National Museum of the American Indian in 2007.
The five figures—Father, Mother, Little One, Moon Woman, and Mountain Bird—come from
Santa Clara Pueblo oral traditions. Designed to melt back into the earth, these sculptures
were made with organic material and built by indigenous people from the United States and
Mexico. The film addresses contemporary Native issues and the creative process of making
art inspired by indigenous culture.
Class
HANDS-ON ART HISTORY
$35, $28 Mia members;
includes all materials and light
refreshments.
• Tuesday, October 13,
10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Japanese Silk Painting
• Tuesday, December 1,
10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Delacroix’s Brushstrokes
ART + FEMINISM MIA WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON
Saturday, October 24, noon–4 p.m.
Target Wing Atrium, Library & Friends Community Room
Free, but tickets required.
Join the Library Affinity Group’s campaign to improve coverage of women artists in
Wikipedia. No Wikipedia experience necessary; training sessions at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. for
newcomers. Please bring your own laptop! Library resources will be on hand for researching
artists in the museum’s collection.
Please note: The library will be open Thursday evenings October 1, 8, 15 & 22 for research
in preparation for submission of new material or for those wishing to set up a Wikipedia
personal account.
They say learning a new skill
helps keep the mind sharp. Boost
your brainpower by getting
hands-on with art history. We’ll
start by taking a closer look at
artist materials and processes
to deepen your understanding
of styles and techniques. Then
you’ll try your own hand at making
a masterpiece. No previous art
experience necessary.
Hashimoto Gahō, 1866–99, Chōkarō Sennin
Releasing His Mule from a Gourd (detail), Gift of Libby
and Bill Clark in celebration of the 100th anniversary
of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2014.110